William Lee Hastings Elementary School

Size

Of the 9 elementary schools in Duncanville ISD, William Lee Hastings Elementary School is the 3rd largest, with 4.6% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1 miles away and have a median of 414 students, so William Lee Hastings Elementary School is larger than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is pre-K with 110 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 76, against an average of 88 per grade. This year grade 4 has 19% more students than kindergarten (95 against 80). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 110 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 53.9% of enrollment, about the same share as across Duncanville ISD (55.1%). Black students are next, at 40.8%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

83.6% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 78.1% across Duncanville ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

William Lee Hastings Elementary School has 29.83 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 529 students would have about 35.7 teachers, so William Lee Hastings Elementary School has 5.9 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

NCES classifies its location as suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Ume Preparatory Academy - Duncanville, 0.5 miles away in Ume Preparatory Academy. There are 30 elementary schools within 5 miles and 150 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.